Magazine
Digital Edition
November 10, 2014
Timberland herbicide spraying sickens a community in Oregon, a look at why the current drilling boom is more sensitive to price fluctuations than its predecessors, California's sweeping new groundwater regulations, a desert-friendly cow and more.
Feature
Companies deposit thousands of pounds of herbicides each year on Oregon forests.
Current
LIDAR is about to become more widespread -- helping agriculture, pilots and homeowners.
The current drilling boom is more sensitive to price fluctuations than its predecessors.
Will the law finally mean better aquifer management for the drought-stricken state?
Mules are still needed to carry supplies in wild, roadless mountains.
A rancher and a researcher search for a better bovine — and think they’ve found one.
But the industry says it needs more timber.
“Exempt well” laws in most Western states allow domestic wells to be drilled without water rights.
Editor's Note
Essays
I spent my 20s in some of the most beautiful towns in the West.
Writers on the Range
Let people take all the images they want in wilderness areas.
Dear Friends
Welcome three new members, and farewell to naturalist Ann Zwinger.
Book Reviews
Photographs from Utah’s Monument Valley to the Petrified Forest.
Review of ‘Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land’ by Dan O’Brien.
Review of ‘Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and And Art in the Changing West’ by Lucy R. Lippard
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Multimedia
The people affected by this timberland herbicide cocktail.
Letters
- Rusty Austin on Rants from the Hill: Desert Insomnia
- Susannah Abbey on Touring Hopi via a 10K running race at dawn
- Jonathan Thompson on Light rail enters the West’s most sprawling metropolis
- Carolyn Hales on Light rail enters the West’s most sprawling metropolis
- Carolyn Hales on Light rail enters the West’s most sprawling metropolis
